Tuesday, October 23, 2012

San Diego Gaslamp Quarter Photo Tour

A few months ago, we bought a Groupon for a 2 hour photo tour of the Gaslamp Quarter in downtown San Diego with Snap Photo Tours. We finally went on the tour on Sunday 10/7.

But first, we went to breakfast at Crest Café in Hillcrest. I decided to try something new! I got Crème Brulee French Toast. It was every bit as good as it looked, but too big so I couldn’t finish.

Todd got Macadamia Banana Belgian Waffle and he ate it all.

At 10am, we met up with our tour guide, Aggy, in front of Horton Plaza. She was nice and knowledgeable and fun. We started out taking photos around Horton Plaza and then walked and talked and took photos. I love tours like this because you learn a bit about the places you’re walking by, as well as get photo tips! Todd was armed with our Canon T2i DSLR, while I took the little Canon SD850IS point and shoot. The photos below are a mix of both.

A statue of the founder of downtown San Diego, Alonzo Horton.

Statue of former senator Pete Wilson.

US Grant Hotel. It was once the most luxurious hotel in San Diego.

We practiced macro photography with flowers.

Then we walked around the Gaslamp and took photos of interesting buildings.

Aggy told us about building histories and architecture.

I took photos where I thought the angles and lighting were interesting.

Big chandelier inside Café Sevilla.

We had a lot of fun with the Gaslamp photo tour. Hope you enjoyed it too! :)

8 comments:

I'm sittin' here with my mouth open. I cannot believe you live in the same San Diego as me. I reallllly need to get out more. Great ideas and great pictures. Bye the way cafe sevilla has blue cheese stuff dates that are awesome.

Hahaha ... your photos of the Gaslamp Quarter in SD and my photos from all over NYC have one thing in common ... they're looking up a lot of the time! I don't know about you, but my neck ached after a long day snapping photos! Seriously LOVE the colour saturation / intensity in your images, Christine ♥